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Indigo Wild

While in Kansas City, I had a wonderful day, night, and morning with my dear friend Marla Svoboda. Marla’s younger daughter, Hattie, invited us to visit her work place. I love getting to see how things are made inside factories, but the experience Hattie shared with us was way more than that.

Hattie works at Indigo Wild a Kansas City owned and operated soap company. When we arrived at the factory on Saturday morning workers were already socializing outside. That’s the first thing I noticed about Indigo Wild–every one seemed happy to be at work!

Here is the outside of the factory.

Inside the factory there is also a little shop where you can purchase soaps and other lovely things.

And here is a peak about at what is happening behind the doors of this rather regular old red brick building.

Hattie is a soap labeller by day and a civil rights activist by night. Seriously, last year, this kid attended college full time, worked to jobs, and held down an internship working towards futhering LGBT rights. I know someday I am going to turn on C-SPAN and Hattie will be there testifying before cngress of the United Nations.

Not that is an amazing bar of soap!

This is what one half of the Indigo Wild staff meeting room looks like.

I do believe these are magical ingridents.

And this is what the other half looks like.

One of the many fun office spaces.

Indigo Wild’s tag line is “Any More natural and You’d be Naked.”

So there were some areas where I could not take pictures.

This is my dear friend Marla Svoboda and her daughter Hattie.

Goats are a popular motif because Indigo Wild uses goats’ milk to make their soap.

A very handsome staff photo.

The Men’s Bathroom.

The Ladies Bathroom.

The staff kitchen

More funkiness

A view of the lower lower from up high.

Another exterior shot complete with picnic table.

Gotta love the Goat.

Indigo Wild staff regularly bring their dogs to work, play D.J. on the sound system, make each other fancy teas and coffees, and have a very good time while working. I must say seeing all of this was so inspiring. How good it must feel to be part of creating such an amazing work environment for your employees.

I hope you enjoyed this photo tour of Indigo Wild. If you want more, check out this great video on their website. And if I was unemployeed in Kansas City, I think I would be running down to 3125 Wyandotte Street, Kansas City, Missouri to apply for a job.